Posted on 03/12/2008 5:57:18 AM PDT by wny
Democrats don't resign. They don't think laws and rules apply to them. See:
Bill Clinton: perjurer, rapist, felon---reelected
Marion Barry: crack-addict, prostitutes---reelected
Alcee Hastings: corrupt impeached judge---elected to Congress
Barny Frank: boyfriend runs male-prostitute service from Frank's home---reelected again and again
William Jefferson: $90,000 in his freezer---still in office
Ted Kennedy: criminally negligent homicide---reelected repeatedly
Alan Hevesi: caught red-handed using state money for personal use---didn't resign
these are just the ones that spring to mind
Spitzer will resign. No later than Friday.
Too plausible.
It is, after all, the party of moral chaos.
When I say "should", I mean from a strictly amoral, cynical, point of view. He doesn't need to resign.
He’ll resign.
Unlike the ones mentioned above, Spitzer doesn’t have a base of support.
That is because our party lacks the b_lls to force them to resign!
We refuse to make their crimes an issue, and totally ignore them.
Add Larry Craig to that list of no-good, corrupt bunch of entrenched buzzards. We have a few on our side of the aisle, too. And some of them have not been caught yet.
New Yorkers are weighing in on the governor’s call-girl scandal.
The consensus, according to a new poll, is a big thumbs down. A State that put him in the governors slot with close to 70% of the vote.
The Marist College poll released late last night found 70% of New Yorkers polled feel Spitzer should resign and 66% feel he should be impeached and removed from office if he doesn’t.
Don’t forget Gerry Studs and his male page boyfriend.
He thinks he is the law.
Let’s add to the list Detroit’s “hip-hop msyor” Kwame Kilpatrick who, caught perjuring himself in his own sex scandal, called those who reported the story a racist lynch mob in his annual State of the City address last night.
Just announced that he IS resigning : http://www.nypost.com/seven/03122008/news/regionalnews/spitzer_to_resign_in_the_hour__sources_s_101629.htm
"...And I know that every one will confess that it would be most praiseworthy in a prince to exhibit all the above qualities that are considered good; but because they can neither be entirely possessed nor observed, for human conditions do not permit it, it is necessary for him to be sufficiently prudent that he may know how to avoid the reproach of those vices which would lose him his state; and also to keep himself, if it be possible, from those which would not lose him it; but this not being possible, he may with less hesitation abandon himself to them. And again, he need not make himself uneasy at incurring a reproach for those vices without which the state can only be saved with difficulty, for if everything is considered carefully, it will be found that something which looks like virtue, if followed, would be his ruin; whilst something else, which looks like vice, yet followed brings him security and prosperity.
The Democrats are already defending him. He's put "bad" guys away, but we don't know if his purposes were legitimate or if they were truly bad guys.
So, the division between official duties and a private life is being offered as his defense.
We've seen this before.
Relatively very few. As a rule (note those three words), our garbage takes itself out; and if it doesn’t, we do.
As a rule, this does not obtain with the Donks.
Those other stories died, this one won’t. It is just too delicious....hypocrisy, sex, money (maybe even Mafia money or state funds....ohlala...), beautiful women, betrayed trophy wife...it’s better than a soap opera.
The consensus, according to a new poll, is a big thumbs down. A State that put him in the governors slot with close to 70% of the vote.
The Marist College poll released late last night found 70% of New Yorkers polled feel Spitzer should resign and 66% feel he should be impeached and removed from office if he doesn?t."
Interesting, 66% think he should be impeached. Is the New York requirement for a 2/3 affirmative vote for removal? This may be a close call for Spitzer's decision.
To quote Col Potter: “You people - get the phone, Radar - you people have been panicking over a rumor that says the 4077 is bugging out. That is grade-A 100% bull cookies! You service people should know by now that scuttlebutt is as common as cooties in your skivvies! ...
The general has assured me, there is nothing to worry about. M*A*S*H 4077 is definitely... [Radar hands him a message] bugging out in three hours!
IMHO, a vanity should only be offered if it is the equivalent of a news / commentary article.
You could have put these few lines into a response on most any Spitser thread.
At an absolute minimum, it should be labeled a vanity or even a rant, so everyonne knows all they will get from clicking on the thread is the equivalent of a single response.
“Spitzer will resign. No later than Friday.”
Heard this morning that if Spitzer does not resign today, that impeachment proceedings will start tomorrow in the NY legislature.
And don’t forget Gary Condit, who the press identified as “Rep. Gary Condit”; never as Gary Condit (D-CA).
I found that interesting.
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